Metatags

[Johan H]

This is going to be my first post in this forum.

When exporting audio from Audacity there is this metatag dialog box and I fill in artist name, track title, album title etc. It is nice when doing this on an mp3 but it seems that it is not used anywhere if it is a wav file. Not in Windows Media Player or iTunes nor on the CDs I burn.

Question is when and where the metatags on a wav file are used?

Another question is, if I put a commercial CD in my computer and all the above information is displayed, is it ONLY because it was retrieved from the internet?

Johan Hackman
Stockholm
Sweden

[steve]

Question is when and where the metatags on a wav file are used?

Few programs other than Audacity support metadata in WAV files, so there's probably not much point filling it in.

if I put a commercial CD in my computer and all the above information is displayed, is it ONLY because it was retrieved from the internet?

With a standard CD, yes that is correct, though there is an extension to the standard format that is occasionally used that is called "CD text". Note that" CD text" is not a part of the official (red book) standard but you may come across it occasionally. CD text allows track information to be stored on the CD.